All State agencies, departments, and institutions and all local political subdivisions of North Carolina shall give equal opportunity for employment and compensation, without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, age, disability, or genetic information to all persons otherwise qualified.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 126-16
Equal opportunity for employment and compensation by State departments and agencies and local political subdivisions
Applied in 14 court decisions — leading case Davis v. North Carolina Department of Correction (1995)
Most recently applied in 173 N.C. App. 297 - Jarman v. Deason (September 2005)
1971, c. 823; 1975, c. 158; 1977, c. 866, s. 7; 1979, c. 862, s. 3; 1983 (Reg
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